Deployment Options
LiveNX components can be deployed via the following methods: Virtual, Physical, and Cloud. The Virtual Deployment Specifications, as well as the Cisco and Multi-Vendor Device Support lists are provided below.
If you are interested in deploying LiveNX in a Physical, Cloud (Azure, AWS, & Google Cloud), Hyper-V, or KVM environment, please contact BlueCat sales for the specifications appropriate for those environments and your needs.
Virtual Deployment Specifications
The LiveNX Server is primarily deployed as a VMware OVA virtual appliance and is fully operational right out of the box. The server operating system runs on a Linux (Ubuntu) platform.
Server Platform Specifications
- VMware ESXi v5.0 or higher - VMware Hardware Version 8 (vmx-8)
- Network Hardware - At least two Physical NICS on ESXi
- Support up to 10 Gbps
- Virtual NICs on OVA are utilizing E1000
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<= 25 devices or <= 25 k flows/sec. |
<= 100 devices or <= 50 k flows/sec. |
100 to 500 devices or <= 100 k flows/sec. |
500 to 1000 devices or <= 150 k flows/sec. |
Up to 1000 devices or <= 500 k flows/sec. |
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Each LiveNX server/node supports up to 76 TB disk space. It is recommended to add each disk in 10 TB increments. Server IOPS Recommendation LiveNX 8.0 - 1000 IOPS Read and 4500 IOPS Write. *For Cisco SD-WAN environments, a Large Deployment with minimum of 256 GB RAM is required for the Virtual Appliance option. |
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Client Platform Specifications
- Windows or macOS
- 4 Cores
- 8 GB RAM
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